"mark krawczuk" wrote in message
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well, you be screwed if you live over 6 hours , out on a farm , with NO
TELEPHONE , only contact is via hf radio , and snail mail.
microsoft didnt even bother to think about people out on farms in the
middle of no where did they ? when they try to register their copy pf
crappy xp.

Ideas:

HF radio phone patch.

Satellite phone. (Don't you have satellite phones out there?)

Write Microsoft a letter by snail mail.

Or just get the activation done when you buy the computer.

This only has to be done once, when Windows is first installed, and you have
30 days to do it. Do you stay on the farm for 30 days solid?


More to the point... People 6 hours from civilization are *not* the main
target audience of Windows XP!